this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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There's so many casual examples that LLMs excel at. Learning a second language? Having something that can break down context, provide examples, or have practice conversations with is incredibly helpful and easy with LLMs. There's an endless amount of little things it makes easier and is great at: planning a trip and want a quick itinerary suggestion? Need help running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign? Want something to help you summarize a topic or plan you a basic learning on a topic? There's so many valid helpful uses where is faster or better than current options.
It hallucinates at a percentage that makes it completely unusuable for all of those tasks. If it's strictly inferior to non-LLM solutions for all of these problems then clearly you're better off not using it at all.
You can search up an itinerary for popular tourism locations.
There are platforms, free or paid, that teach you a second language instead of making random shit up.
There are countless DnD campaigns you can find online or tools to make planning them easy.
You can learn that 2+2=4 and not 5, or logic puzzles which are variations of common ones that ChatGPT are incapable of parsing due to its statistical nature, for free from sites like Khan Academy.
ChatGPT is shit, mate. It has no concept of anything, it just generates the next token in a chain of tokens until it produces some garbage which roughly approximates an answer. Why not just get an actual answer 100% accurate to human output from a real person?
It's okay to hate on the "AI" hype train but it does yourself a disservice to completely ignore the places where it's better than current alternatives. You obviously haven't used it for these tasks because to say it hallucinates most of the time is just factually wrong. The ability to have a direct conversation with it to get ideas and explanations makes it such a powerful tool for the topics I brought up.
Also if you think LLMs lie most of the time but then say the things you find on the internet are 100% true and factual. My brother, you need to take a step back.
I'm not ignoring anything, and in fact the only stance so far against my argument is to ignore the reasons I gave. A real pot to the kettle moment.
You say that things on the internet aren't 100% factual? Okay, now realize THAT is the data that the LLMs are trained on. So 85% accurate to THAT is still WORSE.